Professor Yang Wei’s Inaugural Lecture

Overview

Wearables are moving from novelty to health infrastructure. In this inaugural lecture, Professor Yang Wei sets out a From Fabric to Field roadmap, from smart materials and e‑textiles to deployable wearable systems, showing how decisions in fibres, yarns and sensor architectures translate into clean signals, trustworthy metrics and certified products.

With projects backed by EPSRC, NIHR, Innovate UK, Wellcome Leap and Cancer Research UK, the lecture highlights advances in cancer monitoring, respiratory sensing and rehabilitation. This is a practical story about systems that work in the wild: smart, lightweight, integrated textiles that are comfortable to wear, simple to maintain and meaningful for decision‑making across homes, clinics and communities. From Fabric to Field, you will see the translation steps that turn prototypes into products that matter.

Biography

Professor Yang Wei is Professor of Wearable Technology at Nottingham Trent University, where he leads the Advanced Textiles Research Group (ATRG) and the smart medical textiles at MTIF. His research integrates textiles, electronics and digital health to create smart, lightweight, integrated e‑textile systems for healthcare, defence and industrial applications. He has secured £2.8m+ as PI/Co‑I from EPSRC, NIHR, Innovate UK, Wellcome Leap, Cancer Research UK, Research England and DSTL, delivering advances in cancer monitoring, respiratory sensing and rehabilitation technologies. He holds multiple patents and his work has featured widely in the media, including the BBC and The Guardian.

Yang serves on UK and EU funding panels, including the EPSRC Review College, and has acted as reviewer/panellist for EPSRC, MRC, NIHR and MSCA programmes. He is a Chartered Engineer (IET) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and his team’s excellence has been recognised with STEM for Britain (Silver, 2025) and the winner of Elektra’s University Research Group of the Year (2024). His NIHR project is also the Winner of the Healthcare and Medical category in The Engineer’s Collaborate to Innovate awards.

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